Aimee, I'm so sorry for your loss.
I'm going to see to Wesley, see if he's still whimpering.
Giles ,'Chosen'
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Pix - Nov 01, 2008 5:47:49 pm PDT #9794 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Fay - Nov 01, 2008 5:50:51 pm PDT #9795 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Oh, Aims. I'm very sorry for your loss, love.
JZ - that's one adorable picture, but I think that the "Hi people" thing may just have it beat for cuteness. Also, I am full of envy over the Harry Potter street.
Children's movies should not have orphans in them.
It was ALL insano troll logic, of course, but this in particular sprang out at me. Hello? Have you SEEN any classic children's movies/ read much kidlit, insano troll logic person?
Off the top of my head: Annie, Oliver Twist, James and the Giant Peach, Snow White, Harry Potter, The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Pollyanna, Anne of Green Gables, The Jungle Book, A Series Of Unfortunate Events, The Graveyard Book...
Barb - Nov 01, 2008 5:54:31 pm PDT #9796 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
It was ALL insano troll logic, of course, but this in particular sprang out at me. Hello? Have you SEEN any classic children's movies/ read much kidlit, insano troll logic person?
Fay, deep breaths, love. It's not worth getting het up over the Insane Trolls.
Ginger - Nov 01, 2008 6:09:52 pm PDT #9797 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
All of the best children's books have orphans or absent parents. You can't do the really cool stuff with parents.
I have been taken out for my birthday by a very good friend. We worked together started some 20 years ago, in a place where three of us cared passionately about the English language and everyone else ... did not. Sometimes friendship seems to be a kind of miracle. As Clarence king said, "One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."
I love Matilda's "Yo, people. Of course I can talk. What are you smoking?"
I'm sorry, Aims. Strength to you and your dad.
brenda m - Nov 01, 2008 6:11:56 pm PDT #9798 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Aimee, so sorry.
DavidS - Nov 01, 2008 6:13:48 pm PDT #9799 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Off the top of my head:
...Lilo and Stitch.
Okay, that's a bit recursive.
But as Ginger notes, you've got to move the parents out of the story somehow to give the kids agency.
Beverly - Nov 01, 2008 6:43:46 pm PDT #9800 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Aimee, I'm so sorry. All strength and courage to your dad, to you and the rest of your family and those who loved her.
Beverly - Nov 01, 2008 6:46:33 pm PDT #9801 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
"It's little. And broken. But still good. Yah."
Breaks me every time.
Matilda and Emmett are luminous together. Iris is a beautiful butterfly. But then second-generation Buffistas are all beautiful and brave.
I'm a day late, Daniel, but I hope your birthday was happy.
Libkitty, I hope your mom is doing well, and that you're holding up okay.
Sorry to be scarce. Can't be helped right now. Miss you all.
WindSparrow - Nov 01, 2008 6:55:48 pm PDT #9802 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
But as Ginger notes, you've got to move the parents out of the story somehow to give the kids agency.
Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper - and those are from just Twain. There's Prince Caspian, and other assorted semi-orphans in Narnia. Jumanji - may not be a classic example, but I really liked the movie.
Fay - Nov 01, 2008 7:10:37 pm PDT #9803 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
"It's little. And broken. But still good. Yah."
Breaks me every time.
God, thee and me both, love.